May 24, 2018

Corporate

A few weeks ago The Walt Disney Company held its year’y shareholders meeting in Texas. It was mostly a meh meeting notable for Disney theme park cast members talking about how much they loved their jobs while outdoors other Disney theme park cast members protested over the need for more…

I had to double check the calendar on this one, but it’s square root day, not that other holiday. Disney says that current COO Tom Staggs, the heir apparent to CEO Bob Iger, will leave the company as of May 6. This is big news and a potential break in…

The headquarters for Tupperware is just a few miles down Osceola Parkway from Walt Disney World, so former Walt Disney Parks and Resorts (US and France) president Meg Crofton won’t have to go far to find her new position on the Board of Directors of the famous household items brand….

Star Wars and Marvel are two big intellectual property acquisitions for Disney that are already paying off (to put it mildly). Not that Disney is in the market to add more franchises to its collection, but Bob Iger has said they would make the move if everything worked out right….

Treasurer is a fairly important position at any company as big as The Walt Disney Company. They report directly to the Chief Financial Officer and usually are considered a prime candidate to fill that position should it open up. Earlier today, Disney’s CFO Christine McCarthy, announced that Jonathan Headley had…

One thing Disney theme park fans love to complain about is decision by spreadsheet (or as Disney author Kevin Yee famously says “declining by degrees”). The idea that there’s someone backstage with a formula and a red pen saying, you have to cut, cut, cut because some random number wasn’t…

It’s an honor that has include such great corporate leaders as Bill Gates, Jack Welch, and Michael Dell in the past. Now Disney’s CEO Bog Iger can add his name to the list of CEO’s of the Year as awarded by Chief Executive magazine. Among the reasons given for the…

That mad clicking sound you hear is the keyboards of thousands of hopeful startup entrepreneurs filling out an application to be among the first crop of companies accepted into the new Disney Accelerator program. The oft-unspoken secret to both Walt Disney’s success was that he was a better innovator than…